BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Last Sunday, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue teams were dispatched to three missions. That brings the number of operations this summer to 40 in total, with one big weekend to go. Summer and winter are typically SAR’s busy seasons, but June through August sees a higher number of dispatches. The
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MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Due to staffing issues, the Madras Oregon DMV office was closed Thursday, the agency said. Much business to be conducted with DMV can be done online at https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/_/
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Associated Press U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests, under a plan finalized Wednesday that faces challenges from barred owls returning after they’ve already been removed. Trained shooters will target barred owls over 30 years
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A group of organizations and businesses announced Wednesday they have joined in a legal action by Pahlisch Homes to require the City of Bend to pause the implementation of a new tree code policy that they claim will further increase Bend’s sky-high housing costs.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — As the Labor Day holiday weekend approaches amid a late-summer warmup, Central Oregon fire officials reminded the public Wednesday that wildfire danger is still high and Stage 2 Public Use Fire Restrictions remain in effect across public lands in the region. Here’s Central Oregon Fire Management Service’s full announcement: Despite recent
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Amid a rise in animal complaint calls this year and tickets for chasing, hurting or killing a wider range of livestock, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office reminded dog owners Wednesday that it’s their responsibility to keep their canines under control. This year, DCSO deputies have issued an increased number of citations
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday awarded more than $102 million in federal funding to Oregon, California and Washington to install electric vehicle charging stations and hydrogen fueling stations for trucks along Interstate 5 and other key freight routes. The award will result in new, publicly accessible EV charging stations
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The USDA Forest Service is informing partners, collaborators, and the public that the release of the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the amendment to the Northwest Forest Plan, initially anticipated at the end of August, is now expected in October. When released, the draft EIS will be published in the Federal
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Jamie Parfitt, Pat Dooris, KGW CORVALLIS, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — Hewlett Packard’s longtime facility in Corvallis is set to receive both state and federal support for expansion and modernization as part of the CHIPS Act, officials announced Tuesday. The company is slated to receive up to $50 million from the Biden administration and another $9.5 million
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) –The Oregon Health Authority has released new data revealing that eight Oregonians die each day due to alcohol, a dramatic 30% leap over just three years. According to Dr. Dean E. Sidelinger, Oregon’s State Epidemiologist, 3,027 individuals died alcohol-related deaths in 2022. He shared the new data at the Oregon Recovers Alcohol
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Associated Press For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon have free passage along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — as the largest dam removal project in U.S. history nears completion. Crews will use excavators this week to breach rock dams that
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PORTLAND, Ore.— Oregon Health Authority’s Emergency Medical Services & Trauma Systems Program is now accepting applications for the new Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board (EMSAB) and Emergency Medical Services for Children Advisory Committee (EMSCAC), in alignment with the 2024 EMS Modernization legislation. The EMSAB is designed to create regional and state levels of care for the following: Emergency medical
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Jefferson County officials met Friday with officials from dozens of taxing districts, from the library to cities and fire districts, to discuss a $1.8 million property tax over-payment by Portland General Electric, letting them know utility has agreed to reduce the repayment impacts on their budgets.
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Oregon’s four-year-long Measure 110 drug decriminalization experiment is approaching its end next week, after legislators and the governor signed off on recriminalization and new reforms, but left many of the details up to each county to work out.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon State Hospital said Monday it has received a statement of deficiencies from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services following a survey that was prompted by a patient death in May. Surveyors also reviewed a second patient death that occurred in November of 2023. The deficiencies identified in the report relate
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LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon state Senator Dick Anderson (R-Lincoln City) announced Monday that he has submitted the legislative concept for a “No Tax on Tips” bill ahead of the 2025 legislative session, echoing a high-profile proposal from the presidential campaign. “This legislation is designed to provide financial relief to Oregon’s service industry workers, who
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Laws that let bicyclists treat stop signs as yield signs lead neither riders nor motorists to act unsafely, according to a groundbreaking Oregon State University study. The project by OSU College of Engineering researchers featured a novel experimental technique – linking separate bicycle and motor vehicle simulators – and the findings
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Women’s Equality Day, observed on Monday, commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. More than a century later, women have made progress, but an Oregon official says more work needs to be done.
Continue Reading By Eric Tegethoff, Oregon News Service SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon aims to make social and emotional health care for young children more available with a new metric. The Oregon Health Authority has adopted the Child-Level Social Emotional Health Metric, which will improve and incentivize care for kids from birth to age 5 who are on
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue teams had a busy late-summer Sunday, with three rescue operations west of Bend – including one in which an off-duty volunteer happened upon a group of lost teens, and another that ended just as it began when an overdue man turned up in good condition.
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